@article {44402,
	title = {Iron-based nanocatalyst for the acceptorless dehydrogenation reactions},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2017},
	month = {DEC},
	pages = {Article Number: 2147},
	abstract = {Development of sustainable catalytic systems for fundamentally important synthetic transformations and energy storage applications is an intellectually stimulating challenge. Catalytic dehydrogenation of feedstock chemicals, such as alcohols and amines to value-added products with the concomitant generation of dihydrogen is of much interest in the context of hydrogen economy and is an effective alternative to the classical oxidation reactions. Despite a number of homogeneous catalysts being identified for the acceptorless dehydrogenation, the use of high price and limited availability of precious metals and poor recovery of the catalyst have spurred interest in catalysis with more earth-abundant alternatives, especially iron. However, no report has described a reusable iron-based heterogeneous catalyst for oxidant-free and acceptorless dehydrogenation reactions. Here we replace expensive noble metal catalysts with an inexpensive, benign, and sustainable nanoscale iron catalyst for the efficient acceptorless dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles and alcohols with liberation of hydrogen gas.},
	doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01603-3},
	author = {Jaiswal, Garima and Landge, Vinod G. and Jagadeesan, Dinesh and Balaraman, Ekambaram}
}
@article {46745,
	title = {Iron-catalyzed direct julia-type olefination of alcohols},
	journal = {Journal of Organic Chemistry},
	volume = {85},
	year = {2020},
	month = {AUG },
	pages = {9876-9886},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Herein, we report an iron-catalyzed, convenient, and expedient strategy for the synthesis of styrene and naphthalene derivatives with the liberation of dihydrogen. The use of a catalyst derived from an earth-abundant metal provides a sustainable strategy to olefins. This method exhibits wide substrate scope (primary and secondary alcohols) functional group tolerance amino, nitro, halo, alkoxy, thiomethoxy, and S- and N-heterocyclic compounds) that can be scaled up. The unprecedented synthesis of 1-methyl naphthalenes proceeds via tandem methenylation/double dehydrogenation. Mechanistic study shows that the cleavage of the C-H bond of alcohol is the rate-determining step.</p>
},
	issn = {0022-3263},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.joc.0c01173},
	author = {Landge, Vinod G. and Babu, Reshma and Yadav, Vinita and Subaramanian, Murugan and Gupta, Virendrakumar and Balaraman, Ekambaram}
}
